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Never did a magistrate exercise power entrusted to him, with stricter fidelity than Washington.

They loved pomp, but any attempt to exercise power over them infuriated them.

A father and son, with such preoccupations, could not safely be allowed to exercise power.

We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the liberty of strangers.

Why should they wish to exercise power through the franchise when they were already omnipotent over those who had the franchise?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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